I don't like how they approached a solution in 5.4 "So you hate dailies? we wont include any, instead kill a trillion mobs to reach exalted"

I hated the timbermaw grind, and I hate the shaohao grind.

I agree with almost everything except for this little bit. I'm a weird guy and I love endless braindead grinds like these for reputations. I have most pre-MoP factions at exalted, but the ONLY rep I have at exalted now in MoP is the Black Prince. (I grinded the Darkmoon rep for my insane title before the super nerf with the dailies. 100k herbs was fun)

Now, I don't think all reputations should be gigantic grinds, of course not. But I love them, why shouldn't they all be grinds? Because that wouldn't be fair to the other players. Just as it's not fair to make every reputation a daily grind. I hate dailies a lot, but I love grinds.

We got one single grindable reputation (I'm really not counting the Black Prince) and that was Shaohao, one of the most useless repuations in the history of WoW. Still, I'm glad they added at least one this expansion. (I guess you could add in Warbringer farming as one way, but I don't know any people on low pop servers and my server has the second or third largest horde population of all servers (I'm horde too though))

Cataclysm was absolutely perfect for me. You could choose between dailies or heroic grinds. I wouldn't complain if they added the same deal again, but made the reputation from heroics could be even smaller, I wouldn't mind that. And as you said, the rewards weren't vital for progression except for Therazane and once again, as you said, that grind was very endurable even for people that dislike grinds.

Edit: I lied. I have some factions at exalted. Those you can grind through Warbringers and Shado-Pan Assault.